Skip to main content

Python Example

TeleCMI webhooks implementation in python. Use our simple python web server to test your webhooks and live events locally for development purpose.

Install​

Follow the below installation instructions

Prerequisites​

Prerequisites for python web server.

  • git (>= 2.20.1 required)
  • python (>= 2.7.16 required)
  • pip (>= 18.1 required)

Clone the repository​

Use command git clone to clone the python webserver from our TeleCMI github repository.

git clone https://github.com/telecmi/telecmi_example_python.git

Change the directory to your project directory

cd telecmi_example_python

Install flask package using pip​

Use command pip to install the flask(lightweight web application framework).

pip install flask # shows the tagged versions

Run​

Run your python server using the below command

python webhooks.py

Now you can able to test our webhooks and live events, from your local server. To expose your local web server to the internet use ngrok.

You can create a secure HTTP tunnel by providing the port number on which your web server is running. For example, your web server is running on port number 5000. you can launch your HTTP tunnel with the following command line.

./ngrok http 5000

After exposing your local webserver to the internet using ngrok you will get the following output.

Authentication

Now you can get your dynamic URL from the above output. To configure webhooks and live events, paste your dynamic URL with correct path in webhooks section.

Note
Each time you start up the Ngrok tunnel, you're likely to get a new URL so don't forget to update the new url in the dashboard.